Secondary Target by Angela CarlisleSeries: Book 1 of 2 in the Secrets of Kincaid seriesPublisher: Bethany House, May 7, 2024 REVIEW BY JOAN HALL Secondary Target is Angela Carlisle's debut novel. I purchased the book last year when it was first released because the description was intriguing, but it sat on my Kindle for over... Continue Reading →
Leah’s Faith by Joanne Lehman
Leahโs Faith by Joanne LehmanSeries: Book 1 of the Benville Community SeriesPublisher: Masthof Press (February 24, 2024) REVIEW BY PRISCILLA BETTIS Leah is an Amish teenager with severe scoliosis. Surgery would help her, but she and her family accept her disability as Godโs will. The story takes place in Ohio. Even though Leah is young,... Continue Reading →
Storm Warning by Elizabeth Goddard
Storm Warning by Elizabeth GoddardBook One of Hidden BayPublisher: Revell, February 18, 2025 REVIEW BY JOAN HALL When you canโt remember all the past, who do you trust? Former Army photographer Remi Grant escaped to Cedar Trails Lodge on the rugged Washington coast. Where better to hide than a place with no internet, no television,... Continue Reading →
The Feathered Bone by Julie Cantrell
The Feathered Bone by Julie CantrellSeries: StandalonePublisher: Thomas Nelson (January 26, 2016) REVIEW BY PRISCILLA BETTIS Amanda is mother to Ellie and a chaperone for her daughterโs sixth-grade field trip to New Orleans. Ellie and Sarah are classmates and best friends. Sarah disappears on the field trip. Amanda and the teacher panicโthey have LOST Sarah!... Continue Reading →
Unexpected Witness by Penny Zeller
Unexpected Witness by Penny ZellerBook 1 of 3 Mountain JusticePublisher: Maplebrook Publishing, October 22, 2024 REVIEW BY GWEN M. PLANO In this Christian Suspense novel, nurse Mila Casey completes her shift at the local hospital and walks to her car in the employee parking lot. She notices some peculiar behavior, draws closer, and then witnesses... Continue Reading →
What the River Keeps by Cheryl Grey Bostrom
What the River Keeps by Cheryl Grey BostromSeries: StandalonePublisher: Tyndale Fiction (August 12, 2025) REVIEW BY PRISCILLA BETTIS In this contemporary womenโs fiction novel, thirty-four-year-old Hildy is a wildlife biologist in the state of Washington. She knows a lot about rivers and trees and fish, especially fish. When Hildy was little, she told her dad... Continue Reading →
Echoes of Darkness by Darlene L. Turner
Echoes of Darkness by Darlene L. TurnerStand-Alone NovelPublisher: Love Inspired Trade, June 24, 2025 REVIEW BY JOAN HALL Police Constable Oaklynn Brock has a dark secret. Sheโs the daughter of a serial killer. Now living and working in a small Ontario town, the only ones who know her true identity are the police sergeant and... Continue Reading →
This Present Darkness by Frank E. Peretti
This Present Darkness by Frank E. PerettiSeries: Book 1 of 2Publisher: Howard Books (February 14, 2012)Review by Mae Clair Decades ago, when I first discovered Christian fiction, one book set the bar for those that followed. I still have my first edition, trade paperback copy of Frank Perettiโs This Present Darkness. Iโve reread it numerous... Continue Reading →
Shattered Sanctuary by Nancy Mehl
Shattered Sanctuary by Nancy MehlBook One of The Erin Delaney MysteriesPublisher: Bethany House Publishers, March 18, 2025 REVIEW BY JOAN HALL Trying to deal with the aftermath of a tragic incident in which her partner and an innocent child died, ex-police officer Erin Delaney became a best-selling author. She only wrote the book because she... Continue Reading →